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Recent Corrections
5/16/2025: This version of the joint statement includes the most updated list of signatories.
The letter was corrected to clarify that the United States government has re-instated the visa of congressman Alvaro Arzú Escobar.
Correction: This dispatch has been revised to include a quote on the current US State Department website as of May 1, 2025. A previous quote used in the dispatch was taken from a page that was archived on the State Department website sometime before publication.
This news release has been edited to correctly name the deportation center to which Sakhatov and Orusov were transferred.
This version of the report has been revised to correct the age of one victim of abuse, fix the spelling of another person’s name, and clarify the place where a third person appears to have been arrested.
This news release has been revised to correct the number of the article of the UAE’s counterterrorism law that allows for a person whose name has been added to the terrorism list to file a grievance.
On May 14, the sentence “The first two hearings on April 18 concern 189 people” was added to the seventh paragraph for purposes of clarity.
The news release was corrected to clarify the grounds on which Fu Cha was detained. The news release was also corrected to reflect that Chinese authorities have not confirmed that Fu Cha was detained under “designated residential surveillance.”
This news release has been revised to correct the number of Venezuelans sent to El Salvador, from 173 to 137, and the date of the Alien Enemies Act, from 1789 to 1798. A quotation of an op-ed in The Tufts Daily has also been updated to “acknowledge the Palestinian genocide."
This news release has been corrected to reflect that it is US Justice Department guidelines that clarify the areas that FARA aims to monitor.